Carbon storage capacity of semi-arid grassland soils and sequestration potentials in northern China

Global Change Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 3836-3845

  Wiesmeier, Martin ^a   Munro, Sam ^a   Barthold, Frauke ^b   Steffens, Markus ^a   Schad, Peter ^a   Kögel Knabner, Ingrid ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climate change; Fine fraction; Soil organic carbon; Soil texture; Steppe soils

Indexed keywords

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; GRASSLAND SOIL; ORGANIC CARBON; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL CARBON; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL TEXTURE; STEPPE;

CHINA;

SOIL;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CHEMISTRY; CHINA; GRASSLAND; SOIL;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CHINA; GRASSLAND; SOIL;

EID: 84938299676     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12957     Document Type: Article

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